{"id":1392,"date":"2010-04-18T00:57:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T00:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2013-12-11T00:58:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T00:58:39","slug":"and-it-stoned-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1392","title":{"rendered":"And it Stoned Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as suspected below last night&#8217;s marathon prompted the Mets to bring up another pitcher tonight &#8212; and the offense just might get a jolt too.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/archive\/player\/stoner-tobi\">Tobi Stoner<\/a>, who made a few late-season appearances last season wearing No. 29, was recalled. The surprise was that rather than demoting a gassed arm, the Mets designated flailing first baseman\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/archive\/player\/jacobs-mike\">Mike Jacobs<\/a>\u00a0for assignment in order to make room. That leads to speculation that an offensive player would be recalled once the Mets depart St. Louis, first base prospect\u00a0<strong>Ike Davis<\/strong>\u00a0being the most intriguing option.<\/p>\n<p>Davis has been wearing\u00a0<a href=\"news:\/\/number\/20\">No. 20<\/a>\u00a0up in Buffalo\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">but there&#8217;s some speculation he could end up in\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/archive\/number\/49\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">No. 49<\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">, which his dad, reliever\u00a0<strong>Ron Davis<\/strong>, wore for at least some of his career<\/span>.(As pointed out below, Ron Davis wore 53, 39, 34, 55 and 33 in his career). No. 20 currently belongs to coach\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/archive\/player\/johnson-howard\">Howard Johnson<\/a>. We&#8217;ve argued here before for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/archive\/number\/17\">No. 17<\/a>, which would properly honor another terrific Met first baseman but require that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/archive\/player\/tatis-fernando\">Fernando Tatis\u00a0<\/a>changes his shirt. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as suspected below last night&#8217;s marathon prompted the Mets to bring up another pitcher tonight &#8212; and the offense just might get a jolt too. Tobi Stoner, who made a few late-season appearances last season wearing No. 29, was recalled. The surprise was that rather than demoting a gassed arm, the Mets designated flailing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1392\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And it Stoned Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[445,142,443],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ike-davis","tag-mike-jacobs","tag-tobi-stoner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}